[PATCH] powerpc: add ibm,suspend-me rtas interface
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jan 12 08:47:54 EST 2006
>
> This suspend is not (sigh) the same as linux suspend. I might have
> tried to rename it something different, but the RTAS call is
> "ibm,suspend-me". This is going to be driven by the HMC ultimately.
>
> This function doesn't preclude someone implementing one of the Linux
> swsusp versions on Power (and in fact Santi was working on that last
> year.)
What is it then ? Linux "suspend" means any kind of maching suspend,
wether it's to RAM or to disk. If this calls suspends operations on the
partition, it should probably be hooked to the linux PM framework. This
is regardless of wether suspend to disk is implemented or not for ppc64.
Ben.
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